Steve Wilson

Steve Wilson, born in 1961 in Hampton, Virginia, is an alto and soprano saxophonist and flutist who has been a fixture of the New York jazz scene since 1987. He played saxophone, oboe, and drums in school bands and worked in R&B and funk groups as a teenager before studying music at Virginia Commonwealth University. He moved to New York in 1987 with the Blue Note sextet Out of the Blue and toured with Lionel Hampton the following year, and from 1998 to 2001 he was a member of Chick Corea's Grammy-winning sextet Origin. He has appeared on more than one hundred recordings led by artists including Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Michael Brecker, Maria Schneider, and Mulgrew Miller. Since 2013 he has been Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at the City College of New York.